Tag: open source
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Does a blog have to be HTML?
Does a blog post need a title? Does a blog have to be delivered in HTML? In launching textplain.blog, I'd like to argue that the answer is... no!
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BBC News... without the crap
BBC News' RSS feed has lately started getting duplicates because they're mucking about with guids. Also what's with the iPlayer and BBC Sounds content in there? Let's "fix" that for them, shall we?
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Open Turds
I've open-sourced a lot of pretty shit code.
So whenever somebody says "I'm not open-sourcing this because the code is shit", I think: wow, it must be spectacularly bad.
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Automattic Shakeup
Matt's announced a re-organisation we've been doing in Automattic. I like it, because it reaffirms our commitment to doing the most good for our users (whether they're paying us, or not, or even our competitors). But I don't understand how we persuade the world how committed we are to it.
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[Bloganuary] Fun Five
Five things I do for fun: code, magic, piano, play, learn. Let's dig into those a little...
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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Better WordPress RSS Feeds
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?
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WCEU23 - Contributor Day
Today was Contributor Day at my very first WordCamp. I hacked code for WP-CLI and met some awesome people.
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Email newsletters via RSS
No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)!
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Sisyphus: The Board Game (Digital Edition)
I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess?
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Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it:
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.well-known/links in WordPress
Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.
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Beating Children at Mastermind [Video]
Video version of Dan's recent blog post about writing software to help him cheat at Mastermind.
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Beating Children at Mastermind
Sick of losing Mastermind to his kids, Dan cheats by implementing a brute-force solver he can run on his phone.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.